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Tuesday, 06 October 2026

• The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)
  worrydream.com · Discuss

• Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand
  autodidacts.io · Discuss

• Show HN: I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer
  peterszentkiralyi.eu · Discuss

• Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol
  mihai.dinculescu.dev · Discuss

• Screens Aren't Destroying Young Minds. I Should Know
  humanprogress.org · Discuss

• Show HN: Jotbus – a shared encrypted scratchpad for coding agents
  jotbus.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min
  parseable.com · Discuss

• Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk"
  mistral.ai · Discuss

• Mistral Large 4
  docs.mistral.ai · Discuss

• Two ARM64-specific compiler optimization bugs, in GCC 15/16 and Rust, hit curl
  mastodon.social · Discuss

• Mathematics of Geothermal Energy
  ebsco.com · Discuss

• Meta's Muse Is an Adorable Privacy and Security Dumpster Fire
  techdirt.com · Discuss

• Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• Release of Polars 2.0
  pola.rs · Discuss

• JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history
  helgilibrary.com · Discuss

• World's First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months
  techcrunch.com · Discuss

• Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is vastly overestimated
  phys.org · Discuss

• ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers
  bbc.co.uk · Discuss

• Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen
  nobelprize.org · Discuss

• Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore
  gleam.run · Discuss

• 'Pull the plug': protesters resort to direct action against AI firms
  theguardian.com · Discuss

• Anthropic Subscriptions Offer 5x+ More Value Than OpenAI
  newsletter.semianalysis.com · Discuss

Monday, 05 October 2026

• We are going to kill "unalive"
  anildash.com · Discuss

• Resurrecting iChat Audio and Video Conferencing
  blog.pipetogrep.org · Discuss

• Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language
  vivienhenz.com · Discuss

• High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days
  thedrive.com · Discuss

• AI tutoring with Khanmigo in a two-year school experiment
  edworkingpapers.com · Discuss

• Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle
  gwern.net · Discuss

• Ephemeral Testing
  lemire.me · Discuss

• Worth Building
  armstr.ng · Discuss

• Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades
  debugbear.com · Discuss

• ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
  niemanlab.org · Discuss

• Global Solar Atlas: summary of solar power potential globally
  globalsolaratlas.info · Discuss

• Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend
  dbushell.com · Discuss

• Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage
  arstechnica.com · Discuss

• Graphical UI
  graphicalui.com · Discuss

• Find the flattest route between any two points in SF
  flattensf.com · Discuss

• Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation
  qlabs.sh · Discuss

• Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates
  vals.ai · Discuss

• A third way of using Linux
  hisvirusness.com · Discuss

• Incident with Actions
  githubstatus.com · Discuss

• The mental health of young men is declining. Experts warn it could get worse
  cbc.ca · Discuss

• After bankruptcy, he was banned from sports betting sites. Then he found Kalshi
  npr.org · Discuss

• Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model
  reflection.ai · Discuss

• How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn't
  science.org · Discuss

• One person is now a quorum at the SEC
  ft.com · Discuss

• Why Plain Text Is Still One of the Best Technologies We Have
  deadparrotbbs.com · Discuss

• Greenvolt begins building 600 MW/2.4 GWh BESS in Poland
  ess-news.com · Discuss

• Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses
  barrons.com · Discuss

• OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
  diff.wikimedia.org · Discuss

• US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia
  theguardian.com · Discuss

• Our approach to EU text provenance rules
  openai.com · Discuss

• The future of independence is interdependence
  onlys.ky · Discuss

• Borland Turbo Basic
  dosdays.co.uk · Discuss

• Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1
  floreal.tech · Discuss

• The lamps in my house
  arslan.io · Discuss

• Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)
  blog.lizzie.io · Discuss

• Picard 3.0
  blog.metabrainz.org · Discuss

• Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped
  discuss.grapheneos.org · Discuss

• Accept 'bad things' in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
  theguardian.com · Discuss

• Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• The Era of Software Quality, or the Era of Ostriches?
  blogs.gnome.org · Discuss

• Anthropic wants your thoughts on AI
  anthropic.com · Discuss

• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026
  nobelprize.org · Discuss

• Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation
  techfundingnews.com · Discuss

• Web Search API
  developers.cloudflare.com · Discuss

• Press Release: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026
  nobelprize.org · Discuss

• Apple and a hacker's future
  stratechery.com · Discuss

• 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel
  nobelprize.org · Discuss

• Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data
  cpr.dk · Discuss

• Sales of sub-€25,000 electric car models set to rise sevenfold
  transportenvironment.org · Discuss

• Huawei and Qualcomm announce broad patent license agreement
  huawei.com · Discuss

Sunday, 04 October 2026

• Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
  techspot.com · Discuss

• Replacement of petroleum based products with plant-based materials (2025)
  onlinelibrary.wiley.com · Discuss

• Kagi Ends Orion Browser Development for Linux, Will Open-Source It
  linuxiac.com · Discuss

• Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague
  themoscowtimes.com · Discuss

• Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch
  motorsport.com · Discuss

• A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap
  frn.sh · Discuss

• ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust
  getartcraft.com · Discuss

• Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx
  vincent.bernat.ch · Discuss

• In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online
  filmstories.co.uk · Discuss

• I asked Claude build a physically accurate O'Neill cylinder you can walk around
  island-three.gruberbuilds.workers.dev · Discuss

• Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
  1011now.com · Discuss

• Fundamentals of circadian entrainment by light (2021)
  journals.sagepub.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Build with Python – a beginner course where your code draws
  scimigo.com · Discuss

• Google Japan shows off conveyor-belt keyboard with keys that move to fingers
  tomshardware.com · Discuss

• The CISA Alert: Security Beyond Solitary Confinement
  jnior.com · Discuss

• The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists
  worksinprogress.co · Discuss

• Unruly Folded Sheets
  literaryreview.co.uk · Discuss

• Show HN: Dataviz, ranked daily from GitHub, NPM, PyPI and CRAN
  awesomedataviz.com · Discuss

• Building a RAG pipeline for semantic code search
  blog.jetbrains.com · Discuss

• All I wanted was a custom domain email
  jacobg.co · Discuss

• Incentives in Academic Research
  msoos.org · Discuss

• What I learnt co-leading an AI Safety bootcamp for legal and governance practit
  lesswrong.com · Discuss

• Blindsight (Watts Novel)
  en.wikipedia.org · Discuss

• Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening
  automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu · Discuss

• RuneScape's Position on Gen AI
  reddit.com · Discuss